Median / Average Pay ($)
- $28.51 / hour (BLS.gov)
- $50.17 / hour (Indeed.com)
- $28.53 / hour (ZipRecruiter.com)
- $35.65 / hour (Jooble.org)
Services Provided
- Books – Crafting captivating visuals for children’s books, novels, graphic novels, comic books, and nonfiction.
- Marketing Design – Offering visuals, graphics, and imagery for a customer’s logo, branding, packaging, and advertising requirements; for example, creating a company mascot or providing the graphics for a digital advertisement.
- Concept Art and Character Design – Providing illustrations and other graphics for creative entertainment media and products, including characters for video games, tabletop RPG illustrations, and storyboard animations.
- Custom – Creating visual media for unique products such as caricatures, portraits, t-shirts and other apparel, and printed items like stickers or greeting cards.
- Technical and Educational – Delivering detailed sketches and drawings for textbooks and other educational materials (e.g., charts), as well as providing supportive graphics for data; this also includes architectural illustrations.
- NFTs and Digital Art – Creating digital illustrations or graphics specifically for blockchain-based marketplaces (such as crypto art).
- Tattoo Design – Developing tailored images, patterns, and designs for a client’s tattoo.